By HIROKI ITO/ Staff Writer
November 11, 2020 at 19:07 JST
Yoshinobu Sakauchi, winner of a rice contest dubbed Beyond the Best Yamada-Nishiki Project, at the awards ceremony in Tokyo in January (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
A bottle of limited-edition sake from the renowned Dassai brand fetched the equivalent of 843,750 yen ($8,026) at auction in Hong Kong on Nov. 10. [Read More]
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A series based on diplomatic documents declassified by Japan’s Foreign Ministry
A series on the death of a Japanese woman that sparked a debate about criminal justice policy in the United States
A series about Japanese-Americans and their memories of World War II
Here is a collection of first-hand accounts by “hibakusha” atomic bomb survivors.